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Only this answer is up-to-date with the latest Flutter framework. The rest answers are not wrong but defaultTargetPlatform seems to be no longer part of the framework

Stoycho Andreev
– Stoycho Andreev

2017-12-10 14:31:52 +00:00
Commented Dec 10, 2017 at 14:31
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This solution allow you to change the platform during tests, something that I couldn't with Platform.isIOS

César N.
– César N.

2021-02-03 06:24:31 +00:00
Commented Feb 3, 2021 at 6:24
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Watch out on this solution. If it's called in initstate() it will throw an exception as Theme.of() is a inherited widgets and will listen to changes. Which cannot be done in initstate() so it throws exception

Panagiss
– Panagiss

2022-06-13 20:51:37 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2022 at 20:51
The problem of this answer is Theme.of(context) can cause unnecessary rebuilds, you can check this issue on github: github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/89127

abdalmonem
– abdalmonem

2024-07-07 11:51:56 +00:00
Commented Jul 7, 2024 at 11:51

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